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| The alpacas are all decorated with colourful ear ties to distinguish which belong to which famer. The decorations make for quite an amusing sight. |
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| My view from the back of the jeep! |
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| Just 3km outside of Uyuni is an antique train cemetery. The train lines were built by British engineers who arrived near the end of the 19th century and formed a sizable community in Uyuni. The trains were mostly used by the mining industry but when this collapsed in the 1940s the trains were abandoned. |
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| Our first view of the salt flats. The Salar de Uyuni is is the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 square kilometers. It is located at the crest of the Andes and is at 3,656m. The crust serves as a source of salt and covers a pool of brine which is rich in lithium. It contains 50 to 70% of the world's lithium reserves! It was mind boggingly beautiful. |
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| A truck taking salt away to be processed. |
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| Salt piles waiting to be shovelled into trucks. The whole process is carried out by hand! |
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| Keith stamping on a very little Lizzie. |
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| Stop for lunch. |
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| Arriving into Uyuni at the end of the tour. |
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